Participating and Learning in Global Communities


Essential Questions

1. What are the characteristics of 20th century instruction?
2. What are the characteristic of 21st century self directed learning?
3. If you imagine a child passing through 18 years of learning (PK-16), what must we do during those years to ensure that they become 21st century self directed learners?

How and when my personal learning changed.
NECC 2005 - Sara Kajder - digital literacies, digital storytelling
NECC 2006 - Will Richardson - Read/Write Web - Web 1.0 vs Web 2.0, Web 2.0 applications, impact for education
2006-2007 - school year podcasting posting student created content to the internet
February 2007 - Web 2.0 for the Classroom, workshop with Will Richardson and Steve Hardagon in Philadelphia wikis, blogs, social bookmarking, skype in the classroom.
NECC 2007 - Twitter, Blogger's Cafe, Second Life, EduBloggerCon,
September 2007 - Social Software in the Classroom / OpenPD



The Human Network


Voice Thread with others from my global community talking about the benefits of belonging and learning in a global sense.












21st Century Literacies from the NCTE as posted be Will Richardson on his blog February 21, 2008. What he writes about is this National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) exec committee last week in terms of how we need to think more expansively about literacy in the context of these shifts.
Because technology has increased the intensity and complexity of literate environments, the twenty-first century demands that a literate person possess a wide range of abilities and competencies, many literacies. These literacies—from reading online newspapers to participating in virtual classrooms—are multiple, dynamic, and malleable.
This changes the way we must look at standardized testing, if the shift is

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